Phylogenetic systematics and ecology
Phylogenetic relationships of litter- and wood-decaying basidiomycetes and the evolution of various nutritional modes: wood decay types, ectomycorrhizae, and parasitism of bacteria, nematodes and other microfauna

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Biodiversity
Discovering some of the "missing" fungal diversity (the difference between the approximately 300,000 species of fungi described to date and the 1,500,000 which have been speculated to exist)
Determining the functional significance of fungal diversity in litter decay and the soil ecosystem

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Cassia Vilneff
(MSc student;
Cantharellus
in Newfoundland) 01/2010-04/2011. Taught high school science, then completed an MBA in agribusiness at Guelph.

Holly Stover
(NSERC - USRA and 4th year thesis student; Importance of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to plant diversity in tallgrass prairies) 05/2009-08/2010; completed her MSc in restoration ecology at the University of Alberta and has now returned to do a PhD in the lab of
Dr. Hugh Henry

Barbara Bahnmann
(MSc student; Diversity of Agaricomycetes in agricultural soils) 01/2004-04/2009. Now a Biology lab coordinator at the University of Alberta.

Alexandra Koziak
(MSc student;
Nematoctonus
in Costa Rica) 09/2003-03/2006, has moved on to teaching in Calgary

Dr. Mirjam Urb
(MSc student; Fungi associated with caterpillars in Costa Rica) 09/2003-01/2006, completed her PhD in the lab of
Dr. Don Sheppard
at McGill University in Montreal, and is now working in cancer research in Lyon, France.

Dr. Michael Lynch
(MSc student; Impacts of tillage on soil basidiomycetes) 09/2002-12/2004, completed his PhD in the lab of
Dr. Kirsten Muller
at the University of Waterloo. Co-winner of the Canadian Botanical Association 2007 Luella Weresub Award for best Canadian student paper in mycology published in 2006, based on the first paper from his MSc work. Click
here
to see the paper (pdf).